Objectives

Innovation in the automotive industry is mostly achieved by electronics and software functions. The system automobile is becoming increasingly complex, an open developer tool workbench that extends throughout the supply-chain is becoming a must for the industry. Improvements and innovations to these software development tools are required to accelerate product development, create high quality software features and improve integration across the automotive supply chain.

The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new open source initiative to define and implement a standard platform for the software development tools used in the automotive industry. The new Eclipse Automotive Industry Working Group will be open to any organizations that want to participate in the goal of establishing a standard tools platform that will be used throughout the automotive supply chain.

To provide an infrastructure for tool development required by the automotive industry

To address and support the needs for the whole automotive software development cycle

To avoid that the same non-competitive basic tool functionality is redeveloped over and over again

To join forces and meet current and future requirements in terms of tool runtime performance and memory consumption